12 March

Madlax Study

My project of Madlax study is completed. Now it is published in 4 pieces. Link to each of the 4 pieces is shown below.

Part 1
The Annihilation of Genre Axes in Madlax: Amorphous Fiction of Dislocated Perspectives and Archetypes / Fictional Reality 1

https://www.academia.edu/23192477/The_Annihilation_of_Genre_Axes_in_Madlax_Amorphous_Fiction_of_Dislocated_Perspectives_and_Archetypes_Fictional_Reality_1

A fictional work has various perspectives that are indispensable to construct a particular possible world. The reader is supposed to surmise the principle mechanism that is associated with all the elements of the fictional world, together with the semantic extension behind the individual events. In some speculative works those world axes can be quite different from the ones that establish our own phenomenal world. But authors with very reflective turn sometimes attempt to create a quite vague fictional world that will not disclose its genre peculiarity easily, by means of presenting only limited number of information that may suggest the existence of world axes, in order to give the audience the feeling that they are witnessing just only partial phase of an unknown world. Such is the directing strategy adopted in the anime show, Madlax. In Madlax, the audience has to gather information through the characteristic property of the minutely detailed descriptions portrayed just as coincidental phenomena. A fictional work has the creative demand to be adopted as constructing a peculiar “fictional meaning” through a series of events that scientific view of the world might just dispose of as “mere coincidence”. The claim of detecting the fundamental meaning that has been orchestrated in the contingency in fictional description, reversely suggests the existence of a comprehensive global solution formula to be accepted by introducing an unknown mechanism, that enables us to comprehend the organic continuum of the whole universe where matter and mind are inseparably linked. But the fictional world Madlax presents, is densely organized with rich “hyper-real” concrete details, so as to avoid being determined easily as the semantic projection incorporated into existing conceptual category, and establishes the sense that the work must belong to some unknown category with the basic axes loaded with uncertainties of another possible world. The audience is forced to continue to check the fictional specific phenomena full of contaminants revealed one by one, without being able to corroborate the coordinate origin, in search of unified meaning all the way through. But one is never sure whether the show is attempting to present a meta subject overthrowing the conventional commitments of reading the implicit meaning in the work, or establishing another meta subject that an integrated meaning construction of further high-dimensional perspective is to be disclosed. In Madlax, genre axes are dislocated so as to annihilate the distinction of existence, phenomenon and individuality. This anime surprisingly innovates the motif of division of personality and generation of shadow adopted in many fantasy works since 19th century, in a manner very reflective of contemporary worldview infused with the ideas that construct the quantum physics.


Part 2
The Annihilation of Genre Axes in Madlax: Amorphous Fiction of Dislocated Perspectives and Archetypes / Fictional Reality 2

https://www.academia.edu/31919577/The_Annihilation_of_Genre_Axes_in_Madlax_Amorphous_Fiction_of_Dislocated_Perspectives_and_Archetypes_Fictional_Reality_2

Second part of the study of Madlax, covering the episodes 3-5. Discussions on the relationship of the notions intuition and psyche are developed, in comparison with the scientific notion of contingency and its mechanistic worldview.


Part 3
Dislocation of Genre Concepts in Madlax: Fictional Perspectives and Hyper Natural Directing Method 1

https://www.academia.edu/31925486/Dislocation_of_Genre_Concepts_in_Madlax_Fictional_Perspectives_and_Hyper_Natural_Directing_Method_1

Part 3 of Madlax Study, covering the episodes 6-14. In this part, the speculative function of consciousness in fiction-reality continuum is discussed, against the background of panpsychism cosmology.

Part 4
Dislocation of Genre Concepts in Madlax: Fictional Perspectives and Hyper Natural Directing Method 2

https://www.academia.edu/36134761/Dislocation_of_Genre_Concepts_in_Madlax_Fictional_Perspectives_and_Hyper_Natural_Directing_Method_2

Concluding part of my Madlax study published in 4 pieces. In this study of the amazing anime, I pursued the revaluation of fictionality as a mode of cosmological speculation through the argument of its peculiar depicting strategy of disrupted perspectives; where teleological assessment of consciousness’ ability to generate meaning/qualia and the division process of physical existences are considered.